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Adios old job, aloha new job
Oct. 31st, 2014 02:57 pm I was not expecting the weird hash of sadness, benediction, congratulation and I'm-joking-but-35%-serious abandonment issues that my last few days at the old position stirred up among my co-workers and supervisors.
As someone who has ended jobs in a variety of ways*, this one was new and quite touching.
I have also procured a starter set of dress pants to conform to the higher office clothes standard. Five pairs of pants and a set of dressier flats for less than forty bucks, shopping at the Salvation Army in the better part of town. While there's truth to the need to spend money to make money, I'm ramping it up slowly. Luckily it's fall, so the sweaters will see me through until I can rebuild a professional wardrobe.
* 1. not showing up for three days (undiagnosed seasonal depression) 2. standard 2-4 week notice with optional potluck farewell 3. being escorted out of the building (bitter merger; I went to a competitor two days later) 4. flaming 20 minute tirade against horrible manager (in retail, mere days before x-mas, at a job I'd left peaceably months before but came back on school break to help for the shopping season) 5. silently walking away while being yelled at "are you coming back on Monday?!" (hint: this was her third strike in treating me terribly, so no, I was not coming back on any day).
As someone who has ended jobs in a variety of ways*, this one was new and quite touching.
I have also procured a starter set of dress pants to conform to the higher office clothes standard. Five pairs of pants and a set of dressier flats for less than forty bucks, shopping at the Salvation Army in the better part of town. While there's truth to the need to spend money to make money, I'm ramping it up slowly. Luckily it's fall, so the sweaters will see me through until I can rebuild a professional wardrobe.
* 1. not showing up for three days (undiagnosed seasonal depression) 2. standard 2-4 week notice with optional potluck farewell 3. being escorted out of the building (bitter merger; I went to a competitor two days later) 4. flaming 20 minute tirade against horrible manager (in retail, mere days before x-mas, at a job I'd left peaceably months before but came back on school break to help for the shopping season) 5. silently walking away while being yelled at "are you coming back on Monday?!" (hint: this was her third strike in treating me terribly, so no, I was not coming back on any day).
